Network Solutions

Network Solutions, LLC is an American technology company founded in 1979. The domain name registration business has become the most important division of the company. As of January 2009, Network Solutions managed more than 6.6 million domain names.

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… by saying there are no good .com domain names left. Many of its claims centered on this video: XYZ said its ads were merely hyperbolic “puffery” rather than lies. Verisign also claimed that XYZ had massively inflated its purported registration numbers by making a shady $3 million reciprocal domains-for-advertising deal with Network Solutions…

… Evidence of a possibly dodgy deal between XYZ.com and Network Solutions has emerged. Court documents filed last week by Verisign suggest that the .xyz registry may have purchased $3 million in advertising in exchange for $3 million of .xyz domain names. Verisign, which is suing .xyz and CEO Daniel Negari over its allegedly “false” advertising…

telegraph.co.uk - The floodgates have opened for billions of new domain names to rival the iconic dot-coms, prompting a 'Wild West' land grab. One successful speculator, Daniel Negari, talks to the Telegraph about the profit - and lawsuits - it's brought him

… XYZ.com has been seeing its .xyz zone file shrink rapidly over the last five days, likely as a result of free domains pushed out to Network Solutions customers starting to expire. DI PRO stats show that .xyz has shrunk by 49,658 domains this week — today at 888,413 names compared to a June 4 peak of 942,927. It was June 4 last year when…

… the company expects the market to come back after the uncertainty has passed. Web.com yesterday reported third-quarter net income of $33.9 million, up from $29.3 million a year ago, on revenue that was up to $137.4 million from $125.2 million in 2013. The company, which owns brands including Register.com and Network Solutions, announced a $100…

… for .net? The TLD has always been a bit of an oddity. Originally designed for network operators, it was opened up and pitched in the 1990s by Network Solutions as a catch-all that should be acquired alongside .com. That “Oh, I may as well buy the .net while I’m here” mentality stuck in the primary market, and I’ve often encountered the “I’ll throw…

… Clear-cut cases of cybersquatting seem to be among those .xyz domain names that Network Solutions has registered to its customers without their explicit request. Some of the domains I’ve found registered in .xyz, via NetSol to the registrants of the matching .com names, include my-twitter.xyz, guccioutletbirmingham.xyz and googledia.xyz…

… it emerged that the majority of its growth in the first days of general availability was questionable. Network Solutions, it transpired, had seriously inflated .xyz’s numbers by registering .xyz names matching existing .coms on behalf of its customers without their permission for no charge. Data from today’s .xyz zone file is likely to reinforce…

… Network Solutions gave away thousands of .xyz domain names for free to people who hadn’t requested them, artificially inflating the new gTLD’s launch day numbers. As of last night, there were 36,335 domains in the .xyz zone, with something like 27,000 listed as having name servers belonging to NetSol and its parent, Web.com. Before .xyz…